Linda talks to Joanna Weschler, the United Nations representative of Human Rights Watch. The United States and the European Union proposed at a meeting this week in Geneva that the UN's commission on Human Rights take up a proposal to criticize China's human right record. However, China's political maneuvering among the members of the commission kept the proposal from being debated. Weschler says that is not good for the future of human rights in China because it indicates that China feels that it is about the rules of international relations.
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